Curtis VanDonkelaar

I am the author of the short story collection He Plants His Foot, winner of the C&E Press 2024 Fiction Award (forthcoming) and the fiction chapbook Bad Man Love Stories (Etchings Press/The University of Indianapolis). I write fiction and creative nonfiction, and my work has won prizes in the Literal Latte Short Short Contest, the Gateway Review’s Speculative Flash Fiction Contest, and the Press 53 Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Contest. Recent stories have appeared in Necessary Fiction, Phantom Drift, The Fabulist, J Journal, the Vestal Review, Hobart, and DIAGRAM, among others, and have been finalists with the Puerto del Sol Fiction Contest, The Laurel Review’s Midwestern Fiction Contest, Harpur Palate’s John Gardner Fiction Contest, the Tusculum Review Fiction Contest, Pulp Literature’s Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction, and Passages North’s Neutrino Prize. In WRaC, I teach courses in first-year writing, editing, and publication, as well as occasional courses in English-Creative Writing and Integrated Arts and Humanities.